Author/Editor		Ružič-Medvešček, Nadja
Title		The role of echocardiography in heart failure
Type		članek
Source		In: Pajer Z, Štiblar-Martinčič D, editors. International symposium on cardiovascular diseases. Proceedings of the 29th memorial meeting devoted to prof. dr. Janez Plečnik; 1998 Dec 3-5; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: Medical faculty, Institute of histology and embryology,
Publication year		1998
Volume		str. 231-8
Language		eng
Abstract		Heart failure is common disease, has poor prognosis, and can be treated. Systolic and diastolic dysfunction, alone or in combination, are the primary cardiac mechanism that underlie the clinical syndrome of CHF. Assessing left ventiruclar systolic function is crucial before initiating therapy in a patient with heart failure, since treatment for systolic and diastolic dysfunction is different. For differential diagnosis of systolic and diastolic and diastolic dysfunction is different. For differential diagnosis of systolic anddiastolic ventricular failure, left ventricular ejection fraction must be assessed. Eventhough systolic dysfunction dysfunction that often determines the presence or absence of heart failure symptoms.Echocardiography is a reliable method for determining left ventricular parameters of systolic function. It has beenused increasingly as a method for investigating left ventruclar diastolic function eventhough it has been, like all noninvasive techniques, seriously limited by not having access to pressure measurements. Echocardiography is also an accure method for detection and evaluation of majority of the disease with CHF clinical pattern.
Descriptors		HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT